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Two Conservative members of Parliament are facing heat for giving each other a high - five after voting against an Indigenous rights bill . READ MORE: AFN summit to examine whether government has their best interests at heart.

Two Conservative members of Parliament are facing heat for giving each other a high - five after voting against an Indigenous rights bill . READ MORE: AFN summit to examine whether government has their best interests at heart. The exchange occurred on May 30 during question period between Tory

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Two Conservative members of Parliament are facing heat for giving each other a high-five after voting against an Indigenous rights bill.

READ MORE: AFN summit to examine whether government has their best interests at heart

The exchange occurred on May 30 during question period between Tory backbenchers Rosemarie Falk and Dane Lloyd, after they voted against NDP MP Romeo Saganash’s Bill C-262.

The bill is meant to ensure Canada abides by the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

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Romeo Saganash's Indigenous rights bill passes in the House of Commons Bill C-262, introduced by New Democrat MP and reconciliation critic Romeo Saganash, won the support of MPs by a margin of 206 to 79 and is now en route to the Senate.

Two Conservative backbenchers have come under fire for a controversial high - five they shared immediately after voting against a bill that would affirm Indigenous rights . While the bill might be moving on from the vote , the Internet is not. The two Conservative MPs , Rosemarie Falk — whose

The party's lack of support for the bill, and the MPs' high five were both condemned by social media users.

This is pretty appalling. Two Conservative backbench MPs high-five as they vote against the bill to implement the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. @DaneLIoyd@rosemarie_falk#cdnpolihttps://t.co/JTuQ1GGiLX

— Dave Cournoyer (@davecournoyer) June 3, 2018

Racism is alive and well in the Canadian House of Commons where @rosemarie_falk and @DaneLIoyd celebrated voting against Canada upholding UNDRIP principles. There is literally no excuse for this kind of behaviour. I'm appalled.

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Conservative MPs Rosemarie Falk and Dane Lloyd were seen high -fiving one another in the House of Commons last month after voting against a bill that would affirm Indigenous rights .

Several pointed out that Falk represents the riding of Battlefords — Lloydminster, where Indigenous man Colten Boushie was killed.

Let's watch @rosemarie_falk (The MP in Gerald Stanley's riding) and Dane Lloyd high five each other after voting "nay" on Canada harmonizing our laws with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Bill C-262. They. Are. Celebrating. #cdnpoli#cdnmedia@CPC_HQpic.twitter.com/VCPHQO7KOq

— Neil Before Zod™ (@ThatsMrNeil) June 3, 2018

Personally I couldn’t care less about @rosemarie_falk as insignificant as she is in the back bleachers. But the riding she ‘represents’ has a history and she mocks it and she is deserving of no one’s respect.

— paul seesequasis (@PaulSeesequasis) June 4, 2018

The move was also slammed by the Battlefords-Lloydminster New Democrats in a Facebook post, who called it "immature, embarrassing, and unfit for Canada's Parliament."

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"Ugly conduct by Battlefords-Lloydminster Conservative MP Rosemarie Falk," the federal NDP's constituency association wrote. "National media have picked up on the story and, once again, a Conservative MP is a source of shame for our riding."

Global News reached out to both Lloyd and Falk for comment. Falk did not respond by the time of publication, while a representative for Lloyd declined to comment.

However, both Falk and Lloyd commented on the issue to other media outlets, both saying the high five was not related to the bill in question.

“This was in response to the conclusion of nearly an hour of voting in the House of Commons, and not the specific vote in question,” a representative for Falk told website iPolitics.

Ex-Tory senator blasts former colleagues .
OTTAWA - A former leader of the Conservatives in the Senate is blasting her erstwhile colleagues for spearheading a move to gut a bill aimed at cracking down on impaired driving. Marjory LeBreton, whose daughter and grandson were tragically killed by a drunk driver 22 years ago, says she's "appalled" that her former colleagues have succeeded in stripping the centrepiece measure out of Bill C-46. The deleted provision would authorize police to conduct random roadside breathalyzer tests, without needing to have reasonable grounds to suspect the driver may be impaired by alcohol.

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